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Label

Mercury/Virgin EMI Records

Album Overview

Wonderful Crazy Night is the 32nd studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John. It is John's first album since 2006's The Captain & the Kid to feature the Elton John Band, and was written and recorded in 17 days. John's long-standing percussionist, Ray Cooper, makes his first appearance on any of John's albums since Made in England in 1995. This is Kim Bullard's first appearance on keyboards replacing Guy Babylon, and Matt Bissonette replacing Bob Birch on bass.

Tracks

Track

Title

Duration

1

Wonderful Crazy Night

2

In The Name Of You

3

Claw Hammer

4

Blue Wonderful

5

I've Got 2 Wings

6

A Good Heart

7

Looking Up

8

Guilty Pleasure

9

Tambourine

10

The Open Chord

Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks

11

Free And Easy

12

England And America

Critical reception

Wonderful Crazy Night received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 17 reviews.